A24, Sony, and ‘The New York Times’ are lining up to bid on everyone’s favorite film review platform. No matter what, the end is nigh.

A24, Sony, and The New York Times are lining up to bid on everyone’s favorite film-review platform. No matter what, the end is nigh.

Stop ruining our things!

      • degen@midwest.socialEnglish
        9·
        3 days ago

        Why does a movie database need to be turned into social media? Even user reviews are usually asinine babbling and random users’ lists really junked up imdb imo.

      • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        I have not tested it myself (only really know about them because of Emby scrapers) but it looks like they do

        • bradbeattie@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Ah, fair point. But these aren’t searchable. You can create them and explicitly share them, but Letterboxd let’s you search by list title or list content, a key missing feature here. :/

          • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            3 days ago

            well, it’s an open project… perhaps we can petition this feature or contribute to get it developed

            • bradbeattie@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              Not to belabour the point, but open in what way? There’s no bulk data snapshots for download, the site code isn’t available. It’s owned by TiVo.

    • kip@piefed.zipEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      shame it’s missing the diary/log feature, i like letterboxd mainly for that. you can import your exported ratings from letterboxd and sort by date but it’s nowhere near as detailed. but then it’s also missing the abysmally unfunny one line reviews so overall maybe an improvement